Purcell Auctioneers: Superb July 2026 Book Auction of c.580 Lots to include an Important Manuscript Book of Early Gaelic, Irish History Covering the 12th to the 21st Centuries, 1,000's of Vintage Irish Postcards etc. etc., 71526, Birr
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 15, 2026 - July 15, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 444 | Heaney Seamus; Lee Laurie; Sail Lawrence; Joseph Jenny | The Four Elements |
1991 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown | |
| 445 | Healy John; O'Connor Frank; Knowlson James | 9 Books, including: Nineteen Acres |
; London | 1978; 1961; 1996 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 445A | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Newcomes; Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family |
London | 1854 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 446 | McCourt Frank | Angela’s Ashes. A Memoir of a Childhood |
1996 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 447 | Joyce James | Ulysses |
Achill, Co Mayo | 2012 | EUR 160.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 448 | Dickens Charles | Our Mutual Friend |
London | 1865 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 449 | Browning Elizabeth Barrett | The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
London | 1889-90 | EUR 60.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 449A | Charles Read | The Cabinet of Irish Literature |
London | 1892 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 450 | Birmingham George | Irishmen All |
1914 | EUR 80.00 - 160.00 | Unknown | |
| 451 | Trollope Anthony; Mahony Robert | 6 Books, including: Phineas Finn - The Irish Member |
1893; 1995 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 452 | Le Fanu J. Sheridan | Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bertram Haugh |
1893 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |
| 453 | Shane Elizabeth | The collected poems of Elizabeth Shane |
1945 | EUR 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
| 454 | Coffey Brian | The Time The Place; Selected Poems |
1969; 1971 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 455 | Iske Basil | The Green Cockatrice |
N/A | EUR 80.00 - 140.00 | Unknown | |
| 456 | O'Flaherty Liam; Dickinson Patrick | Land; Soldiers Verse |
1946 | EUR 60.00 - 90.00 | Unknown | |
| 457 | Milton John; Jerreries Richard; Stevenson Robert Louis | 3 Books, including: The Poetical Works of John Milton |
1897; 1911 | EUR 40.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |
| 458 | McGill Patrick; Mill John Stuart | The Great Push an Episode of the Great War; England and Ireland - A Lesson For Today |
1916; 1918 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 459 | Yeats Jack B.; Yeats W. B.; Swift Jonathan | 4 Books, including: The Charmed Life |
London; Oxford | 1998 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 460 | Lynch E. M.; O'Grady Standish | A Parish Providence; The Bog of Stars |
1894; 1893 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 461 | Russell George W. | 4 Books, including: Voices of the Stones |
1925; 1916; 1933; 1919 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 462 | MacSwiney Terence | Despite Fools’ Laughter |
1944 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | |
| 463 | Sigerson Dora; Trollope Anthony | Love of Ireland; Barchester Towers |
1916; n.d. | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 464 | A.E.; Hogan Frank; Corkery Daniel; Reid Herbert; Wharton Timothy; Salaman Nina; Stephens James; McGreevy Thomas; Rooney William; MacManus M.J. | 10 Books, including: Song and it’s fountain |
1932; 1928; circa 1920; 1927; 1940; 1923; 1909; 1931; circa 1910; 1928 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 465 | O'Grady Standish | Finn and His Companions |
London | 1902 | EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | Unknown |
| 466 | Macfadyen Dugald; Hepburn David | Lays and legends of the North of Ireland |
London | 1884 | EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | Unknown |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
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The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000